"The white devil's time is up."
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"The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can."
"How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition."
"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."
"Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all."
"When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical."
"Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one."
"If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them."
"When reason fails, the devil helps!"
"When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive."
"Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil."
"No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]"
"The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil."
"Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time."
"And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God"
"Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him."
"André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil."
"Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad."
"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."
"The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself."